일주 · Day pillar
Yang Water over the Monkey
壬申 · 임신일주
One of the six Open Sea days
Your day pillar is the day you were born, written as two characters: Water on top for you, and the Monkey underneath for what you’re sitting on. Of the four pillars in a Saju chart, this is the one that stands for you and the person next to you, which is why a reader looks at it first. There are sixty in all, and this is one of them.
A river bursting fresh out of the rock
You’re Yang Water over the Monkey — a spring coming straight out of metal. You’re quick, curious and endlessly adaptable, with ideas arriving faster than you can use them.
You get bored easily and learn fast, which is a very good combination if you keep moving.
The Saju bit · the traditional reasoning
The day you were born gives you Yang Water over the Monkey, written 壬申 and called 임신일주 in Korean. The top half is the Day Master, the character that stands for you, and it reads as the open sea: deep, always moving, and hard to hold in one place.
An original mind with fresh-start luck
In practice you’re clever, well-travelled or wanting to be, and happiest in situations that change often.
The Saju bit · the traditional reasoning
You’re sitting on the Indirect Resource star , the star of intuition and unconventional thinking, at the Birth stage , full of fresh-start energy. You’re inventive and versatile, you pick up skills quickly, and you find solutions nobody else thought of.
You sit on support
The animal under your Day Master is the learning-and-support side of a chart, so there’s something steadying underneath you. People with this seat usually have somewhere to fall back on, whether that’s family, knowledge or a habit of preparing thoroughly.
The trap is comfort. A supported seat makes it easy to stay in the preparing phase, and to lean on a partner in ways that are hard to notice until they say something.
In the twelve-stage cycle this pillar sits at the beginning, the stage of something newly arrived. It reads as freshness and good will: people tend to help you, and beginnings go better for you than endings.
The Saju bit · the traditional reasoning
The seat is the Insight star , read from the main hidden stem of the Monkey, and the life stage is 장생.
Water sitting on Metal
Water sitting on Metal is well supported, because Metal feeds Water. There’s something underneath you to draw on when you’re tired, which is why people with this pillar rarely run completely empty. The catch is that it’s comfortable, and comfortable is easy to stay in too long.
The Monkey is a Metal animal, which is where that comes from. It’s the same for every Yang Water over the Monkey, whatever else is in the chart.
Is this you?
Your day pillar comes from your exact date of birth, and nobody can work it out in their head. Put your birthday in and we’ll tell you which of the sixty you are, free, along with the rest of your chart: your elements, what you’re missing, and the part of you people notice first.
What the full reading adds for this pillar
- You’ve mastered the first 20% of eleven different skills
- The person who always finds another way
- Easy-flowing outside, restless inside
- Keep flowing — and choose your sea
Readings are for entertainment and self-reflection only.